Part 4 (1/1)

Heretofore you have struggled blindly with these distracting influences, not knowing the elements hich you had to deal nor how to deal with them

[Sidenote: _Dissipating Mental Specters_]

But the mask has been torn from the specter of distraction, and hereafter when irrelevant sights, sounds and other sensations threaten to interrupt your work, just stop a moment and consider

So far as you and your actual knowledge are concerned, nothing exists in substance and reality outside your mental picture of it

So far as you and your actual knowledge are concerned, all ht, and you have never doubted your ability to disht It is for you, then, here and now, to decide whether you will harbor sensory pictures that iress and allow them to harass and dominate you and interfere with the achievenore these intruders and thereby annihilate them

[Sidenote: _How to Control Your Destiny_]

Success is a variable ter that _you_ want to have

Whether you succeed or fail depends altogether upon your own attitude toward the external facts of life

You have within you a living Force against which all the world is powerless You have only to know it and to learn how to use it

Learn the lesson of your oers, the secret of controlling the selective and creative energy within you, and you can bring any project to the goal of accomplishment

In the closing volumes of this _Course_ we shall instruct you in practical methods by which the selection of those elements of experience that are helpful may be made absolutely automatic